#3087: New Songs Live: Kahane and Pastorini

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, hear the second part of a program of new art songs, including works by Ed Pastorini and Gabriel Kahane , two gifted New York singer/pianists with an unusual approach to the song form.

Kahane's gentle baritone and piano /horns /whathaveyou easily trips through pop, concert hall, and theatre, inventing new textures and serving up biting lyrics. Pastorini draws on twisted 1950's jazz harmonies (he studied with Lennie Tristano ) to write piano-based songs that sound like he once sang along with saxophone solos. Plus, Elizabeth & the Catapult perform a bonus arrangement of a Leonard Cohen tune, and more.

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